MORE 'PROCESS' POSTS
Around this time, Newbery Committee members are sending in their last two official nominations, after having submitted three in October and two in November. Following that model, it’s time for Heavy Medal readers to do the same: Submit two Newbery-eligible titles in the comments section below. If you have missed either of the two previous […]
Thank you all so much for another round of robust nominations. Here are some stats: 60 Heavy Medal readers have now participated in the nominations process since October. 247 nominations total. 39 of the 60 reader-nominators have put forward five titles each, the others nominated either just in October or just in November. The list […]
In November, we are asking our readers to Nominate TWO more titles (and two in December as well) following the actual Newbery Committee schedule and procedure. If you already nominated three titles in October, nominate two now — Do not duplicate your own titles but you are free to nominate titles already put in by others. If you did not […]
When the National Book Awards Longlist was announced a few weeks ago I wasn’t sure it would relate very much to mock-Newbery stuff. As Roxanne pointed out in her post, at least five of the ten books were very much on the older end of the teen audience. But today the five Finalists were announced and it […]
October Nominations are closed. We’ll call for two more nominations per person in early November, then again in December. The first round of Nominations was one of my favorite parts of being Newbery Chair. Up to this moment, Committee members don’t have a good sense of what other members are most enthusiastic about. Then the […]
First off, we’d like to thank all of you who have nominated titles for our future discussion. The number of comments is robust! That leads us to express our puzzlement: why so few of you have joined the book discussion? Too busy? Not inspired? Book discussion seems trivial compared to what’s transpiring on the national […]
I know it seems so fast, but it’s already time to start nominating. In October the real Newbery Committee members are painstakingly deciding which titles to put forward as their first nominations. The first ones are hardest, for me, because I’m flying blind. I’m trying to guess what others are likely to suggest and balance […]
Starting in March, we asked our readers to make monthly suggestions with the strict rule on only including books already published. So far, more than 80 titles have been put forth by our readers and 27 of them have 3 or more reader support. We will definitely discuss all 27 and many more from the suggestion pool. You can see the […]
Here it is, our final cumulative reader suggestion list before we start up our book discussion in early September. More than forty (40) readers have contributed to the list. Thank you so much! Plenty of titles to read in preparation for us and Heavy Medal readers. Please continue to recommend worthy titles for us to […]
Although members of the Newbery Committee would continue to make monthly suggestions throughout the year, at Heavy Medal, this is our last monthly official suggestion post. In September, we will start our book discussions and readers can suggest titles in comments during the last few months of 2018. For now, the rules are the same as […]
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